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What sort of caves would Dwarves inhabit? As much as they might love the shining formations in a natural cave, I suspect they wouldn't occupy them as living spaces. Why? In part, because they admire them too much. A natural cave to a Dwarf would be a thing akin to parkland or a garden to us. More practically, the formations in natural caves are formed by water. Stalactites are constantly dripping with the very stuff that sculpted them, and as living spaces, the most beautiful caves would be the most dank and unpleasant to live in. I imagine that Dwarves would journey there to reverently admire the natural sculptures - but then would return to their spaces for living which had been hewn by their hands from dry, living rock.
